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The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.
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The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.
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Real
Men
Every Man Carries His Kingdom Within, And No One Knows What Is Taking Place In Another's Kingdom. 'no One Understands Me!' Of Course They Don't, Each One Of Us Is A Mystery. There Is Only One Who Understands You, And That Is God. Hand Yourself Over To Him.
Men
Hands
Kingdoms
Watch Human Nature; We Are So Built That If We Do Not Get Thrilled In The Right Way, We Will Get Thrilled In The Wrong. If We Are Without The Thrill Of Communion With God, We Will Try To Get Thrilled By The Devil, Or By Some Concoction Of Human Ingenuity.
Trying
Devil
Watches
Can Jesus Christ See The Agony Of His Soul In Us? He Can't Unless We Are So Closely Identified With Him That We Have His View Concerning The People For Whom We Pray. May We Learn To Intercede So Wholeheartedly That Jesus Christ Will Be Completely And Overwhelmingly Satisfied With Us As Intercessors.
Jesus
Prayer
Views
Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, It Knows And Loves The One Who Is Leading. Faith Is Not Resignation To A Power We Do Not Know; Faith Is Committal To One Whose Character We Do Know Because It Has Been Revealed To Us In Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Character
And Love
Never Make The Blunder Of Trying To Forecast The Way God Is Going To Answer Your Prayer.
Prayer
Christian Inspirational
Trying
If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Seemingly Random Circumstances Of Life, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God.
Jesus
Faces
Christ
Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Always Look For Justice In This World, But There Is No Such Thing As Justice. Jesus Says — Never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Give It.
Teaching
Men
Giving
God Is My Father, He Loves Me, I Shall Never Think Of Anything He Will Forget. Why Should I Worry?
Father
Thinking
Worry
We Must Learn To Tell Ourselves The Truth On The Basis Of God’s Word.
Bases
The Bible Does Not Thrill; The Bible Nourishes. Give Time To The Reading Of The Bible And The Recreating Effect Is As Real As That Of Fresh Air Physically.
Real
Reading
Air
The Golden Rule For Understanding Spiritually Is Not Intellect, But Obedience. If A Man Wants Scientific Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity Is His Guide; But If He Wants Insight Into What Jesus Christ Teaches, He Can Only Get It By Obedience.
Jesus
Men
Understanding
One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do. He Reveals To You Who He Is.
Christian
Difficult Questions
Doe
Worship Is Giving God The Best That He Has Given You.
Giving
Worship
Given
God Is Not Saving The World; It Is Done. Our Business Is To Get Men And Women To Realize It.
Men
Done
World
For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.
Spiritual
Understanding
Matter
We Should Always Choose Our Books As God Chooses Our Friends, Just A Bit Beyond Us, So That We Have To Do Our Level Best To Keep Up With Them.
Inspirational
Friendship
God
It Is Perilously Easy To Have Amazing Sympathy With God's Truth And Remain In Sin.
Sin
Easy
Live In A Constant State Of Expectancy, And Leave Room For God To Come In As He Decides.
Rooms
States
Constant
The Spirit Of God Has The Habit Of Taking The Words Of Jesus Out Of Their Scriptural Setting And Putting Them Into The Setting Of Our Personal Lives.
Christian
Jesus
Spirit
If God Has Made Your Cup Sweet, Drink It With Grace; If He Has Made It Bitter, Drink It In Communion With Him.
Sweet
Grace
Cups
Disillusionment Means Having No More Misconceptions, False Impressions, And False Judgments In Life; It Means Being Free From These Deceptions. Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.
Mean
Deception
Suffering
We Always Know When Jesus Is At Work Because He Produces In The Commonplace Something That Is Inspiring.
Jesus
Produce
Miraculous
Am I Getting Nobler, Better, More Helpful, More Humble, As I Get Older? Am I Exhibiting The Life That Men Take Knowledge Of As Having Been With Jesus, Or Am I Getting More Self-assertive, More Deliberately Determined To Have My Own Way? It Is A Great Thing To Tell Yourself The Truth.
Jesus
Humble
Men
Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.
Wine
Grapes
Has Beens
When God Gives A Vision, Transact Business On That Line, No Matter What It Costs.
Giving
Vision
Cost
Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.
Determination
Mean
Pride
If We Believe In Jesus, It Is Not What We Gain But What He Pours Through Us That Really Counts. God’s Purpose Is Not Simply To Make Us Beautiful, Plump Grapes, But To Make Us Grapes So That He May Squeeze The Sweetness Out Of Us.
Beautiful
Jesus
Believe
Paul Welcomed Hearbreak, Disillusionment And Tribulation For Only One Reason - - These Things Kept Him Immovable In His Devotion To The Gospel Of God.
Faith
Religious
Devotion
If We Were Never Depressed We Should Not Be Alive; It Is The Nature Of A Crystal Never To Be Depressed.
Crystals
Alive
Should
The Vision That God Gives Is Not Some Unattainable Castle In The Sky, But A Vision Of What God Wants You To Be Down Here.
Sky
Giving
Vision
Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Consistency
Christianity
Intercession Means That We Deliberately Substitute God’s Interests In Others For Our Natural Sympathy With Them.
Mean
Natural
Substitutes
If We Are Devoted To The Cause Of Humanity, We Shall Soon Be Crushed And Broken-hearted, For We Shall Often Meet With More Ingratitude From Men Than We Would From A Dog; But If Our Motive Is Love To God, No Ingratitude Can Hinder Us From Serving Our Fellow Men.
Dog
Men
Broken
Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God.
Mutiny
Sin
The Institutions Of Churchianity Are Not Christianity. An Institution Is A Good Thing If It Is Second; Immediately An Institution Recognizes Itself It Becomes The Dominating Factor.
Christianity
Good Things
Institutions
The Degree Of Panic Activity In My Life Is Equal To The Degree Of My Lack Of Personal Spiritual Experience.
Spiritual
Degrees
Panic
If Our Hopes Are Being Disappointed Just Now, It Means They Are Being Purified.
Mean
Being Disappointed
Disappointed
Every Element Of Our Own Self-reliance Must Be Put To Death By The Power Of God.
Self
Elements
Power Of God
We Are Not Meant To Be Seen As God's Perfect, Bright-shining Examples, But To Be Seen As The Everyday Essence Of Ordinary Life Exhibiting The Miracle Of His Grace.
Essence
Perfect
Miracle
We Look Upon The Enemy Of Our Souls As A Conquered Foe, So He Is, But Only To God, Not To Us.
God
Soul
Enemy
Whenever God's Will Is In The Ascendant All Compulsion Is Gone. When We Choose Deliberately To Obey Him Then With All His Almighty Power.
Stars
Lasts
Sand
Faith Is Deliberate Confidence In The Character Of God Whose Ways You Cannot Understand At The Time.
Inspirational
Faith
God
Never Water Down The Word Of God, But Preach It In Its Undiluted Sternness. There Must Be Unflinching Faithfulness To The Word Of God, But When You Come To Personal Dealings With Others, Remember Who You Are- You Are Not Some Special Being Created In Heaven, But A Sinner Saved By Grace.
Water
Heaven
Grace
We Must Never Put Our Dreams Of Success As God's Purpose For Us; His Purpose May Be Exactly The Opposite. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And In His Power Now. His End Is The Process. It Is The Process, Not The End, Which Is Glorifying To God....his Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The 'afterwards' Of Obedience. If We Have A Further End In View, We Do Not Pay Sufficient Attention To The Immediate Present; If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment As It Comes Is Precious.
Dream
Opposites
Views
It Is Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.
Jesus
Soul
Connections
Do Not Have As Your Motive The Desire To Be Known As A Praying Man. Get An Inner Chamber In Which To Pray Where No One Knows You Are Praying, Shut The Door, And Talk To God In Secret.
Prayer
Men
Doors
God Saved Us To Make Us Holy, Not Happy. Some Experiences May Not Contribute To Our Happiness, But All Can Be Made To Contribute To Our Holiness. Vance Havner The Destined End Of Man Is Not Happiness, Nor Health, But Holiness. God's One Aim Is The Production Of Saints.
Men
Saint
Holiness
God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede.
Prayer
Order
Giving
Adam Was Created To Be The Friend And Companion Of God, He Was To Have Dominion Over All The Life In The Air And Earth And Sea, But One Thing He Was Not To Have Dominion Over, And That Was Himself.
Air
Sea
Earth
All Christians Have The Spirit Of Christ, But Not All Christians Have The Mind Of Christ.
Christian
Mind
Spirit
The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.
Pain
Son
Men
Grace Is The Overflowing Favor Of God, And You Can Always Count On It Being Available To Draw Upon As Needed.
Grace
Favors
Overflow
There Comes The Baffling Call Of God In Our Lives Also. The Call Of God Can Never Be Stated Explicitly; It Is Implicit. The Call Of God Is Like The Call Of The Sea, No One Hears It But The One Who Has The Nature Of The Sea In Him. It Cannot Be Stated Definitely What The Call Of God Is To, Because His Call Is To Be In Comradeship With Himself, For His Own Purposes, And The Test Is To Believe That God Knows What He Is After.
Believe
Sea
Purpose
The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service To Him. It Is Never 'do, Do' With The Lord, But 'be, Be' And He Will 'do' Through You. The Only Way To Keep True To God Is By A Steady Persistent Refusal To Be Interested In Christian Work And To Be Interested Alone In Jesus Christ.
Christian
Jesus
Way
If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.
Jesus
Surrender
Crisis
When Jesus Christ Shed His Blood On The Cross, It Was Not The Blood Of A Martyr; Or The Blood Of One Man For Another; It Was The Life Of God Poured Out To Redeem The World.
Jesus
Men
Blood
Only One In A Thousand Sits Down In The Midst Of It All And Says—i Will Watch My Father Mend This. God Must Not Be Treated As A Hospital For Our Broken “toys,” But As Our Father.
Father
Broken
Watches
A Heartless Christian Must Be A Terrible Grief To Our Lord.
Christian
Grief
Heartless
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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